NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some
kind of car across the moon´s surface. Unfortunately there are
dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!

OPTIONS

The program understands the following command line options.
-h, --help
shows a short usage message.
-m, --mesg
disable write access to your terminal by other users, so your
boss can´t disturb your game play with the help of "write" or
"finger".
-n, --no-title
skips the title screen.
-s, --show-scores
shows the current highscore list and exits.
-V, --version
prints the program´s version to standard output and exits.

KEYS

The moon-buggy is controlled by a couple of keys, which are described
near the bottom of the screen. Most important are the following keys.
SPC, j makes your car jump. The length of a jump is fixed and you can
only start a new jump, while the wheels have contact to the
ground.
a, l fires the mining laser. The laser is used to remove stones,
which may block your way.
q quits the game prematurely. But you still keep your score and
may enter the highscore list.

FILES

The following files on your system are related to moon-buggy.
/usr/games/moon-buggy
the moon-buggy executable.
/var/games/moon-buggy/mbscore
the global score file
$HOME/.mbscore
the local score file. This is used, if moon-buggy has no write
access to the global score file.